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Throwaway to avoid stigma of what I’m about to say: It’s worse. This site is a good example. It’s rules limit the noise like you get on Reddit which makes it e
by ieooe93jd 7y ago
Throwaway to avoid stigma of what I’m about to say:
It’s worse. This site is a good example. It’s rules limit the noise like you get on Reddit which makes it easy to see without automated counting.
Commentary here is often of the “if you disagree with what I see as a fundamental truth, and contextualize, even though it’s a subjective political opinion, well tldr: downvote.”
The group think here is insane. Protectionism of the ideas that we believe prop up our individual identity are not allowed to be challenged.
And I’ve not peddled conspiracy. Just that my work and agency shouldn’t be bent to the whim of elites.
It’s not “tech illiterate politicians”. It’s society addicted to shallow consumerism.
Being addicted to novelty and such is fine, there’s something to be said for that versus war, right?
But this site really doesn’t defend that. It defends social norms that denigrate the masses. That put tons of effort into crap.
That’s by design. Propaganda research went from military to university and was integrated into advertising, marketing, and journalism. That’s not a derpy state idea. It’s plainly recorded in official records.
Every generation ends and we don’t plan for that. We knew fighting to cling to their rules.
While we’re fetishizing their push for quarterly gains, we’re enabling the continued march down the path we’re on.
Gather supplies, coordinate with neighbors, and online to pick a Monday and stay home.
Even a visible enough sustained effort that direction, I feel, would create a ripple that lights a fire under politicians butts.
But let’s discuss fixing tech debt problems the insane grind creates, avoiding burnout it creates, how to get one more todo app of ridiculously shallow value out there, or fetishize Paul Graham’s request for a start up to build a reminder app that helps him send email? Like ffs be creative, Paul. Such low effort amateur ideas from the anointed ones. It’s almost disgusting.
- ieooe93jd 7y agoIf you can’t share your agreement with my position in 5 words, downvote Filter bubbles were not invented by tech corp. We evolved it to stay focused on individual success at survival
- jriri93 7y agoOh an fwiw the political system can’t get the nuance because it purposefully pushed free speech and debate out of Congress into the real world. Plausible deniability. They’re just a bought vote. Read what the Founders intended. Free speech, vigorous debate in the official political realm is what they were protecting. It was pushed onto the masses to debate markets. You want a political system that gets the nuance, make them discuss it all day instead of market gains and protectionism for old schemes. All they debate is the flow of paid speech. Bribery of the masses to work for it and how we must pay them back for that work. Wait, what? It’s wrapped in jargon to obfuscate the shit deal. Decades ago we passed laws against contracting people who can’t read for a similar reason: it’s manipulative to say ones very abstract model is just right. Yes the combination and division of quantities is correct. What quantities are you measuring? How are you weighting them? So the rich get richer clearly and tighten control of our agency. The political machinery is off limits to free speech. Boring as it is CSPAN will teach you that in a day. It’s boring on purpose, to keep us interested in the “real action” on cable news talk shows. Someone like AOC comes around and brings nuanced debate back to the political world itself and she’s a demon. And I don’t post for you all but for Internet posterity, search engines, etc. most of you all, like myself make bank off it. Talking to a wall here. Information warfare is all over.
- woodandsteel 7y agoI think the discussions here are far more open and intelligent than the vast majority of the web.